I've been effectively covering my ears and singing whenever the subject of Assassin's Creed comes up, and, as I'm in vidyeh game school, that's meant a lot of singing.

Or as it's commonly called, "tuneless yowling".

Tonight, however, I managed to play it for a little short of two hours, and now I feel like I'm free to read all the reviews out there.

:)!

( Speed Review Go Go Go )

Also, this is the best YouTube video ever. I'd been wondering how to draw Asian women properly! And by the best, I mean the absolute worst.

Vancouver Comic Jam time!

Saturday at the Wallflower on Main. The Wallflower's aiite, the food is pretty standard fare, but it's cute. :)

( Page six speed colour )

I like the sound of that. It's something like a curse from the east coast of Canada, only with fewer mentions of Jesus.

Emily (aka embley on DA) is my better, more talented half, and she's pretty fantastic when it comes to drawing distressing, fantastical things.

( Cut for really lovely lighting. Also: intestines. )

AGH. I love Garfunkel & Oates. Are there two more charming girls around?

Answer: Nope!

I was working away busily last night on storybook things, only to realize part of the way through that the page was completely superfluous in terms of storytelling. As was pointed out to me, the villain of the story isn't supposed to be this other concubine woman, but the Concubine herself. Probably a good thing, as the page itself is a straight on one point perspective, which kind of blows.



At least now this means I can cut straight to the violence.

GET IT, CUT.

Also, this is from July, but I hadn't seen this Disney Rapunzel concept art before. The lighting is absolutely, positively beautiful.

Success! I have no willpower, apparently.

Also, Happy Halloween everyone! Though now that I'm looking at the clock, it ended nine minutes ago.

Page one issss... not quite done. The Prince has to added scaling the wall in the background there, and the corruption at the bottom needs to be completed.

( Tough! It's getting posted!  )

( Storybook progress )

I'm fairly sure it was Patton Oswalt who said something about how to become good at anything you have to really nerd out over it for at least a year. A year straight, going all out.

Right now I'm still in painting mode in terms of art, so where I was doing more in the way of comic style art last year, this year it's all new Photoshop brushes and trying to make things look vaguely Mary Blair-ish. In keeping with her storybook art style I've started a new project that will probably take me through to December, but it does increase the geek factor by uh... a lot.

Gabe from Penny Arcade did that lovely storybook however long ago for the Hunter character in the last Prince of Persia, and it worked awesomely in terms of, well, pretty much everything. As a tribute to that project, I've started a ten page version for the Concubine boss. I've drawn about six pages and have two of them coloured to date, and I'm sneaking it in between homework. With any luck it'll be fully done before the new year, and hopefully by then my XBox will be repaired and I can finally play Brutal Legend. Boo urns, red ring.

What's with these creepy teeth ads on LiveJournal these days? I hope that's not just me. "Don't let the dentist fool you"? What is this, some kind of dental conspiracy theory?

ANYway. Teeth aside.

Coloured version of Elika from the last post! I meant to post this here first instead of DeviantArt, but completely spaced out.